election result. it s a pressure campaign that came incredibly and alarmingly close to actually working. it could have completely changed the game for trump and his allies on january 6th if and only if it had succeeded. washington post is out with stunning new details on efforts by doj official jeffrey clark to essentially take over the justice department, efforts which culminated in a january 3rd meeting previously reported on by the post, the new york times and other outlets inside the oval office between clark, the man who would become the acting a.g. and his deputy richard donahue and of course one donald j. trump from the post reporting. clark had outlined a plan. in a letter he wanted to send to the leaders of key states that joe biden won. it said the justice department had, quote, identified significant concerns about the vote and that the state should consider sending a separate slate of electors supporting donald j. trump for congress to approve. in fact, clark
her quick thinking should be commended. but the fact that she had to even do it should be condemned. nearly three weeks since a child was forced to confront pure evil, we re getting a glimpse of the horror she witnessed from inside that courtroom inside that classroom. shot my teacher and told my teacher, shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates and the white board. when i went to the backpacks, he shot my friend that was next to me. and i thought he was going to come back to the room so, i grabbed the blood and i put it all over me. if that had been fiction, parents would not let a child her age read it. had it been a movie, it would be almost a decade before the rating system would allow someone her age to watch it. but it s not fiction. and it wasn t a movie. and i bet it will replay in her mind for the rest of her beautiful life. and it s no fault of her own or any of those children or teachers whose lives were stolen or the children of robb elem
some people will tell you, kids, they say the darnedest things. others will simply say, out of mouths of the babes, if you re my grandmother. but say we heard the truth from the mouth of a child who should be asking to ride her bicycle with that voice, not having to testify before the house representatives about how she was forced to try and save her own life and did. her quick thinking should be commended. but the fact that she had to even do it should be condemned. nearly three weeks since a child was forced to confront pure evil, we re getting a glimpse of the horror she witnessed from inside that courtroom inside that classroom. shot my teacher and told my teacher, shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates and the white board. when i went to the backpacks, he shot my friend that was next to me. and i thought he was going to come back to the room so, i grabbed the blood and i put it all over me. if that had been fiction, parents would not let a chi
i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. a short time ago we heard from an emotional and increasingly frustrated president biden. after all it was vice president biden nearly a decade ago who had the distinct responsibility to formulating the government s response to the tragedy at sandy hook. tonight he delivered his first prime time address to the nation on gun violence and the epidemic that has become in america. you may have noticed the 56 candles burning behind him. they re meant to represent shooting victims from all u.s. states and territories. and it came amid cries of enough. after columbine, after sandy hook, after charleston, after orlando, after las vegas, after parkland, nothing has been done. this time, that can t be true. this time, we must actually do something. this isn t about taking away anyone s rights. it s about protecting children. it s about protecting families. for god sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innoce
i m going to talk to a city council member who said the shooter may have been looking for a specific doctor at that campus. as we get you up to date on what happened in tulsa this evening, we re not going to forget for one moment what s going on in uvalde, texas. how can we? and we re going to look at all the important questions that we re asking there tonight later in this hour. but we cannot turn away from the reality that this is happening all across this country. gun violence, as an epidemic, only seems to be growing. and tonight, it is throwing yet another american city into mourning. and right now i want to bring in katherine richard nealen berg of the tulsa police department. captain, thank you for joining me this evening. it s really stunning that here we are again and perhaps for many people not stunning of the state of affairs today because no one believed it would happen in their town. and here it is in tulsa. what is the latest? what do you know about what s happe